Actually, Americans are notorious for discovering within the first few months of any war quite how many things were not properly prepared, stockpiled, or updated. We sent the Army to Cuba in 1898 with tins of food leftover from the Civil War.https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1242080424588910592 …
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I could go on, but: while none of this is good, even the best preparedness will typically turn out to be inadequate in the early stages of a crisis.
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They were pretty unprepared even when they got to France in early 1918.
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When Lee launched the Gettysburg campaign, the Union Army had to dispatch Washington Roebling to locate maps of...Pennsylvania.
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